Description

Description :
elongated elliptical, 2-5cm long, 1-2cm wide, 3-4mm thick at middle. Externally whitish, pale brownish-yellow or purplish, with several longitudinal and paralled white vascular bundles. Apex somewhat acute, base relatively broad, margins thin, undulate, slightly curved inwards. Texture hard and fragile, fracture relatively even, horny. Odorless; taste, slightly bitter.

action:
to nourish yin and moisten the lung, and to tranquilize the mind.

indications:
deficiency of yin with chronic cough and bloody sputum; fidgetiness, palpitation, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep and absent-mindedness.

referential advice:
1. Moistening the lung to relieve cough
in treaing cough with bloody sputum due to dryness of the lung, the herb can be made into soft extract with flos farfarae, of used in combination with radix rehmanniae, radix ophiopogonis, bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, radix scrophulariae, etc.

2. Clearing away heat from the heart to calm the mind
in treating restlessness of deficiency type, palpitation, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, etc. At the late stage of febrile disease when heat is not completely cleared away, the herb is often used in combination with rhizoma anemarrhenae or radix rehmanniae.

this statement has not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Unless used under instructions by a licensed herbalist.